Datalink Systems i50, Manual

Page 1: ...i50 Manual 5 51 Page 1 2018 Datalink Systems Inc www datalinksystemsinc com i50 Manual 5 51 Last updated Friday 5 April 2019...

Page 2: ...tatus Indicators 12 4 5 COM Connectors 13 4 6 Antenna Connectors 15 5 0 Installation 16 5 1 Cellular SIM Card 16 5 2 Device Orientation 17 5 3 Power Supply 17 5 4 I O Connections 17 5 5 COM Connection...

Page 3: ...ial Up Configuration 50 10 2 Connection Details 51 11 0 Internal Wi Fi version 3 x PCB 52 12 0 Wi Fi Firmware Update version 3 x PCB 53 13 0 Status Messaging Protocol 54 13 1 Commands sent to i50 54 1...

Page 4: ...n a manner consistent with the instructions provided Any changes or modifications including the use of non standard antennas not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void t...

Page 5: ...lar modem FCC ID MIVGSM0308 Iridium modem FCC ID Q639601 Wi Fi module FCC ID PI405W 1 3 2 Version 3 x PCB Cellular modem FCC ID PKRNVWCNN0403 IC 3229A CNN0403 ver 3 1 PCB FCC ID XPYLISAU200 IC 8595A L...

Page 6: ...dic wakeup timer Wide input voltage range with load dump protection Battery voltage monitoring Four digital inputs plus Ignition input Four digital outputs Two analog inputs Switched power output for...

Page 7: ...ng COM3 three wire TX RX GND VOUT Output 1 3 A continuous internal resettable fuse Short circuit protection 5 A typical Output voltage Supply voltage 0 6 V at 1 A Digital Inputs Maximum continuous vol...

Page 8: ...i 250 mW 1 2 W during TX Sleep mode 60 mW5 Digital Outputs 700 mA continuous per output Short circuit protection 1 7 A typical Internal Sat Modem Optional Iridium 9602 Internal Cell Modem Optional Enf...

Page 9: ...GPS LED GPS status indicator Wi Fi Female SMA connector for Wi Fi antenna optional Iridium Female SMA connector for Iridium antenna optional GPRS Cell Female SMA connector for cellular antenna option...

Page 10: ...ection 3 0 for detailed specifications on these pins 4 2 VOUT Power Source The VOUT line provides a switched power output allowing the i50 to turn an external device on or off By default VOUT is activ...

Page 11: ...t VOUT and GND use RS 232 voltage levels RJ 45 Pin Pin Name Direction relative to i50 DB 9 Pin female 1 VOUT Output 2 MODE Input 7 RTS 3 RX Input 3 TX 4 STATUS Output 6 DSR 5 TX Output 2 RX 6 RESET In...

Page 12: ...see section 6 8 Sleeping NET LED flashes orange red plus green every two seconds GPS LED off When the unit is in normal operating mode the LEDs are used to show network and GPS status as follows NET...

Page 13: ...ies to any external devices that power down their ports when no signal is detected such as many RS 485 converters In this case use COM1 4 5 2 Automatic Shutdown version 3 x PCB The i50 version 3 x PCB...

Page 14: ...wire interface so is unable to support hardware handshaking Table 5 shows the COM3 pin descriptions DB 9 Pin male Pin Name Direction relative to i50 1 Not used 2 RX Input 3 TX Output 4 DTR Output alw...

Page 15: ...se the i50 CPU will reset and stop working until the line is deactivated 4 6 Antenna Connectors The front panel provides Wi Fi Iridium and cellular antenna connectors SMA Each connector will only be p...

Page 16: ...y Locate the internal cellular modem near the front of the board with SIM holder on top For version 1 and 2 PCB Insert SIM into holder with contacts down and notch near front of board For version 3 1...

Page 17: ...t to use battery voltage to detect engine running and use its accelerometer to detect motion to wake up from sleep However it is recommended to connect the IGN input to a vehicle ignition source high...

Page 18: ...internal modules See section 1 2 for important information about antenna selection Note to allow automatic noise profiling the GPS antenna should be attached BEFORE turning the unit on 5 7 Initial Se...

Page 19: ...n the unit wakes briefly to send its position then goes back to sleep All internal devices are turned on but the VOUT power source is not activated in this mode 6 2 1 Power Up Upon power up the microp...

Page 20: ...tion and then send this to the server before going straight back to sleep The Max GPS Send Wait Time settings limit the maximum time the unit is awake in case there is no GPS or network coverage 6 3 M...

Page 21: ...wer cost modem When no network is available or the i50 has been configured to buffer reports the outgoing packets will be stored in memory for transmission at a later time 6 6 Data Queue The i50 keeps...

Page 22: ...nd point to point RF networks to acknowledge receipt of the data These ACKs will add 4 bytes 32 including UDP cellular datagram Note when the i50 has buffered multiple positions in memory the overall...

Page 23: ...necting a PC to the i50 The i50 is normally programmed through the Program connector on the front panel See section 4 3 for information on making a cable to connect from a PC serial port to the RJ 45...

Page 24: ...iSeries Programmer will prompt for the password before continuing If the password is not entered there is no way to read or write settings to the i50 If the password is forgotten use the Device Facto...

Page 25: ...bar is displayed to warn of the mismatch This provides a quick method of tracking changes before they have been sent to the asset At any time the current asset values can be copied into the local val...

Page 26: ...latile memory so they will be retained if the power supply is removed even if the internal backup battery is flat When finished programming use the Start Device button to have the i50 exit programming...

Page 27: ...Time Clock RTC to match the PC s clock Note that the programmer determines the time in UTC format so that it is written correctly no matter what time zone the PC is in Reset Accel Cause the i50 to aut...

Page 28: ...option is set under the Sleep Pin setting before unit enters sleep mode Set to zero to disable sleep mode Periodic Wakeup While sleeping the unit can wake periodically to send its location Set to zer...

Page 29: ...l the next report is triggered City Time Reports Used to enable periodic position reports in City mode Options are provided to disable these reports when IGN is off or device is stationary City Max Ti...

Page 30: ...ion Start Time Period unit must remain moving to trigger a Start event or tow alert Use Accel to detect motion If enabled the unit will use g force readings to detect when the unit is moving rather th...

Page 31: ...a is sent immediately Cell Buffer Enable position buffering when using a cellular modem See note on RF Buffer setting Iridium Buffer Enable position buffering when using Iridium See note on RF Buffer...

Page 32: ...from GPS RMC and GGA packets are always enabled Cellular Cell COM Speed Cellular modem COM speed Cell Modem Type Type of cellular modem Cell Server Domain Name Optional domain name for server When en...

Page 33: ...ed the i50 will select the current radio channel zone based on waypoint locations Kenwood Base TX Fleet Type Kenwood base radio fleet ID Fleetsync or ID type NXDN Together with the Kenwood TX Base ID...

Page 34: ...Key Selects encryption key for Ezurio Wi Fi interface version 1 and 2 PCB Enter 10 hex digits for a 64 bit key 26 hex digits for a 128 bit key or leave blank for no encryption Dial up Msg Dial up Fire...

Page 35: ...he standard serial encoding allowing connection to a sign using a serial to Ethernet adapter Transparent Data Transparent COM Speed Transparent COM speed Transparent Serial Config COM settings for tra...

Page 36: ...ates how far the front of the device Program connector end has been rotated away from the front of the vehicle in a level plane Set to zero to calibrate automatically Select Uncalibrated to disable ca...

Page 37: ...output states to match the current RF zone voice or data are treated the same In this case all channel selection outputs will be inactive when the i50 is outside all RF zones The i50 Programmer has a...

Page 38: ...ese tags can be 16 character iButton IDs or 8 character RFID tag IDs When the list is empty or not supported as with firmware version 5 57 the i50 will accept any driver tag Otherwise it will only acc...

Page 39: ...OUT driver ADC Status of internal analog to digital converter ADC Accel Status of internal 3D accelerometer Buffer Shows how many events or positions are currently stored in memory This buffer can be...

Page 40: ...rt button The screen acts as a simple terminal showing data received and allowing data to be sent by typing The Close Port button closes the port and the Binary option is used to display all incoming...

Page 41: ...wood sends an encoded data packet to check for a radio response The APC1 2 commands are used to check automatic people counters 7 4 1 Direct Mode The Direct Mode checkbox causes the i50 to map the cur...

Page 42: ...assuming a full handshaking cable is being used The Outputs frame allows the i50 digital outputs VOUT line and COM2 3 ports to be turned on and off for testing purposes Note any changes made to outpu...

Page 43: ...ng device such as a laptop to the modem This allows the laptop to access the Internet for email file transfer etc The dial up port acts as a modem emulator Any external device can send AT commands to...

Page 44: ...values exceed a predefined range Current firmware is designed to talk to adapters that use the ELM 327 chipset 8 7 Alarm Interface This is a custom option to allow the i50 to control an external alarm...

Page 45: ...nal An internal Iridium modem is available as an i50 option 8 12 Ezurio i50 version 1 and 2 PCBs have the option of an internal Ezurio Wi Fi module This module allows third party devices to connect to...

Page 46: ...0 will check its location every minute to determine whether it is within an RF zone see section 7 2 4 If it is within two or more zones the i50 will select the closest one Once the zone has been deter...

Page 47: ...to detect motion When enabled the i50 will base its start stop state on the accelerometer output rather than using GPS signal This will create more reliable start stop reports as it will work in area...

Page 48: ...in degrees relative to the starting position shown in Figure 8 Figure 8 Accelerometer Angles With all values near zero the i50 orientation has the power connector on red side in illustration facing f...

Page 49: ...nd y angles to self level itself Calibration mode can be completed in two ways 1 Manually by setting the accelerometer z angle setting 156 to a non zero value The z angle controls which direction is f...

Page 50: ...tandard 19200 bps Modem under the Standard Modem Types group 5 Select the PC COM port where the i50 will be connected Note that if you are going to use a USB to serial converter it must be plugged in...

Page 51: ...r Timeout period This allows a computer to keep its dial up connection active at all times Note the computer should be configured to reduce network traffic preferably using a firewall as satellite air...

Page 52: ...this packet to detect the i50 s IP address and listening port To send data devices will connect to the i50 s SSID and then open a TCP IP connection to the i50 It is expected that the normal use for t...

Page 53: ...reboot enter to restart the module 6 Click on the Wi Fi 9600 button to switch to 9600 bps 7 Type rapidly to enter command mode A CMD response indicates that the modem is ready to accept commands 8 Typ...

Page 54: ...s format is the file transfer command response packets which include binary data and use a length value to determine packet size see section 13 3 for details The ESC character 0x1B can be sent to canc...

Page 55: ...ssage is an email Message Message body FileData See section 13 3 Error 0 Unknown command 1 No ID 2 Invalid ID 3 Unknown ID 4 Wrong network for file transfer 5 File data too long Net 0 None 1 MSAT 3 Ra...

Page 56: ...address 255 255 255 255 when connecting via dial up or Wi Fi When the i50 replies its IP address will be contained in the from address of the response Further packets can then be sent directly to the...

Page 57: ...t WebGate user Subject Email subject if message is an email User name if message is from a DataHost WebGate user Address Email address if message is an email Message Message body When such a command i...

Page 58: ...ted string Name of file 2 Offset 3 bytes LSB Offset of this data block within file Starts at 1 Length 2 bytes LSB Length of this data block 1024 maximum RawData Raw file data 3 ACK Offset 3 bytes LSB...

Page 59: ...amples 1 Check status i50 response shows it has an active cellular connection it is currently transmitting data and has 5 packets waiting in its buffer TX N ETX RX n CTRL Z 11 CTRL Z 0 CTRL Z 0 CTRL Z...

Page 60: ...omatically populated with one or more messages when the Garmin is connected This list provides a way to request the current i50 status network GPS and pager states If a Grace system is enabled another...

Page 61: ...ith the Check Bus Output digital output mode This input indicates that the driver has checked a bus for remaining passengers Each input has a polarity setting which indicates the active state high or...

Page 62: ...iver Beeper Output pulses regularly while IGN is turned on and no driver is logged in Output chirps twice when a driver logs in using a recognised iButton RFID tag or three times if an unrecognised iB...

Page 63: ...Select 2 Channel Select 1 1 Inactive Inactive Inactive Active 2 Inactive Inactive Active Inactive 3 Inactive Inactive Active Active 4 Inactive Active Inactive Inactive 5 Inactive Active Inactive Activ...

Page 64: ...is state is also triggered when a Grace pager alert is received The alarm must be cancelled before another alarm can be sent Even if a server ACK is received alarms will be resent every 5 min until a...

Page 65: ...irmware updates may reset the i50 s internal data buffer If the buffer contains important information please ensure that the unit has connected to a server and sent its buffer before updating firmware...

Page 66: ...onnecting and check the Use USB to Serial Converter option if appropriate If problems persist try setting the Stop Bits to 1 Figure 11 RFU Communications Options Use the File Load flash image menu to...

Page 67: ...ettings contain ranges of bits For example a setting may contain a value in Bits 7 5 7 to 5 This uses three bits to define the value ranging from 000 to 111 decimal 0 to 7 If this value is set to 4 bi...

Page 68: ...0 38 I_USEDISTLO Use city distance reports 1 Yes 0 No 0 39 I_USEDISTHI Use highway distance reports 1 Yes 0 No 0 40 I_USETIMELO Use city time reports Bit 0 Enable Bit 1 Don t send while IGN off Bit 2...

Page 69: ...0 84 I_DEBOUNCE1 Input 1 debounce Range 20 30000 ms 100 85 I_DEBOUNCE2 Input 2 debounce Range 20 30000 ms 100 86 I_DEBOUNCE3 Input 3 debounce Range 20 30000 ms 100 87 I_DEBOUNCE4 Input 4 debounce Rang...

Page 70: ...n wakeup events while sleeping sec 0 131 I_MAXGPSWAIT Max time to wait for GPS signal during periodic wakeup sec 120 132 I_MAXSENDWAIT Max time to wait for network during periodic wakeup sec 120 133 I...

Page 71: ...to zero to recalibrate 0 162 I_ACCELY Accelerometer rotation around Y axis radians 10000 Set to zero to recalibrate 0 163 I_MAXTILT Max allowed tilt when stationary degrees Set to zero to disable 45 1...

Page 72: ...i Fi port TCP listening port for local access point or UDP remote port for connecting to external network 4004 200 I_KWDELAY Delay after voice call before trying to send data sec 30 201 I_RFPING Time...

Page 73: ...TR_WEPKEY WEP key for Ezurio connection First two characters define encryption type 00 No Security 01 64 bit 02 128 bit The key starts at third character 64 bit keys use 10 hex characters 128 bit keys...

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Page 75: ...APN with the APN defined by the network operator AT AREG 2 Enables auto registration AT W Saves modem settings AT RESET Resets modem AT CREG Checks GSM registration If working OK response should be C...